Three anti-liberation Jamaat leaders- Matiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed and Delwar Hossain Sayedee- were allotted government plots in the capital during the BNP-led four-party alliance regime ‘in recognition of their special services to the country’. Discontent runs high among the public as the allotment of the plots has not been cancelled even after they were convicted…

The government is going to update the existing 10-year gas sector master plan, keeping in mind the target to turn Bangladesh into a developed country by 2041, officials said. The existing master plan formulated in 2006 was…

Fake clinicians run many healthcare institutions at district and upazilas levels due to lack of proper monitoring by the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council (BMDC), experts said. They observed that fraud doctors are practising in the guise of registered physicians as BMDC, the central accreditation body to control medical education and watch the ethical issues in medical practice,…

CNG-run auto-rickshaw owners and drivers demonstrated in different parts of the country for the second consecutive day on Sunday against the government ban on plying of CNG on the highways. Protests took place in several districts, including Chittagong, Mymensingh, Comilla, Sylhet and Barisal, leading to violent confrontation with the police in some places. In Chittagong, drivers…